Folks, there is no time better than now to begin the inner journey.
You may think you can find happiness and joy on the outside with your eyes wide open and your ears and nose open to the senses all around you.
You may think that you need to hold your hard-earned cash and be ready to spend it on something to be happy. You may think you need to own that beautiful new watch, home, necklace, and car as you think obtaining these things will give you happiness.
Yet, what is holding you back from obtaining Real Joy?
Ya wanna know a secret? To find Real Joy you don’t have to go far – all you have to do is close your eyes.
Now, many of you probably are thinking it can’t be this simple.
Well, I got some breaking old news for you. There is nothing more to it. You just have to learn to master the art of “looking in” to find and realize simplicity and clarity, than “looking out” at what is complicated and likely muddy.
It’s funny, but when our eyes and arms are wide open to see and receive the things we want, we generally stress out over things once they are obtained.
We want more money and responsibility on the job, but stress out over not having enough time to spend the money. We want a bigger house, yet crib about paying a high mortgage and electricity bills. We want that luxury automobile, but complain about high maintenance costs. We want great pay and a fantastic position in a company, and continuously bitch about not enjoying vacations as the Blackberry is continuously going off.
So many of you I meet are so tense over family relationships, jobs, cars, homes, girlfriends, boyfriends, news, favorite sports teams losing. All materialistic things.
Yet, the easiest way to win the war against our desires and the tension created through this is to fight it with our eyes closed shut. Yes – again – it’s just that simple. Just close your eyes so you don’t see anything.
The magic transformational tenet for Real Joy is as follows: The journey from outer pain to inner joy begins by seeing things blindly.
What you can’t see, is something you can’t touch, is something you can’t feel, is something that you may be able to describe in words, but yet have no reason for any emotional bond because you are blind to it.
What you can’t see is the Real Joy within you in your state of non-“wanting”-ness, non-attachment, and non-desires that you have to work to develop.
Everything disappears when you close your eyes. A daily meditation routine is the foundation of grounding yourself to what is Real within you.
Now, if you run an experiment and find more peace than pain when you eyes are closed than wide-open, could the argument be that the world we are living in on the outside is just a trick and an illusion of False happiness?
Could it be that keeping our eyes wide open sets us up to open the floodgates of pain bodies (e.g., anxiety, stress, tension) to be created within us?
I don’t really have to prove that when you see things from the outside that pain is created within. Do you think your anxieties are caused by others, the things you own, the people you associate with, the things you eat? If you think anxieties just pop up inside of you for no reason, this is not true.
Yes, some pain bodies may be part of our mental and physical DNA, but these can be controlled by observing emotions, contributing to helping other through selfless service, and perhaps even some Divine faith.
Don’t let your outer world eat you up inside. Clean your inner world for a better outer world.
Here are some quick tips on meditating:
- Pick a particular time of day to meditate – morning or evening. I find early morning to be beneficial and just before going to sleep.
- Pick a particular location to meditate. This can be a corner in a room, on a mountain, by the lake, on your deck. The that you can meditate anywhere. As long as we have the capacity to close our eyes to the outside world anytime, we can meditate anywhere.
- Don’t watch or read anything related to violence (e.g., bad news, movie with a lot of bloodshed, etc.) prior to meditating. Best is to read something related to self-improvement.
- Try not to have any tea or coffee before meditating. It best for the mind not to be stimulated by caffeine
- Start by closing your eyes for just a few minutes. Start with a minute and slowly move up to as much as 10-15 minutes a day.
- Sit in a comfortable, cross-legged position, if possible, or on a chair with the soles of your feet on the ground. The key here is to be grounded and remain steady.
- Keep your back straight. Don’t slouch as the breathing should be open, allowing the abdomen to contract easily for inhalation and exhalation.
- Remain steady and breathe comfortably. Let the belly raise out and in when you breathe, without any forced movement. Keep the body static. Use this time to reward your body by holding still as you will have plenty of opportunities to move throughout the day.
What are you waiting for?
Let the inner journey begin now!